For years, it’s been a common rallying cry among activists that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has coddled its burgeoning natural gas industry at the expense of other state priorities. Perhaps nothing, they contend, has been more emblematic of that cozy relationship than the fact that Pennsylvania is the only active drilling state in…

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Sub HeadingGovernor Wolf campaigned on creating a natural gas severance tax, but getting it passed will be far from simple

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